WESTS TIGERS MUST HAND IN THEIR NRL 1ST GRADE LICENCE.

Kelce68 said:
Bullshit.

Suggesting the club should fold because of on field struggles it is trying to fix is piss weak and a waste of everyone's time.

No one who loves or supports a club would ever suggest they fold. Ever.

We don't need people like that here or in the club at large.
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On field struggles?
There are many fans who wish that was the problem we‘re confronting, but truth is it’s just a symptom of a far greater issue which needs addressing, and we all know that if we sweep it under the carpet it doesn’t improve by itself.
 
I really don't like this thread !
I don't think Abdo &Co need too much encouragement
So much talk about PNG ,Perth ,2nd NZ team ,Bears ,Central Coast etc etc
4 or 5 spoons in a row then look out !!
Our Club is our Club infinitum that's it !
What the club must do ?
Fix it !! Get a better roster , coach better ,Train harder
Make us proud again asap !
 
bigsiro said:
Telling off other fans for venting frustration at the same time as saying membership is the answer is so flippant and crude. The only thing you have done is undermine current members.
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Rubbish.
Piss weak supporters thread still right here.
 
twentyforty said:
You’re reading too much into it. LOL How can a donation be anything but what it is.
Simply suggesting after presenting the report on the review of governance and being told the club would implement all recommendations, Barnier would not be pleased to see no action. I mean other than some HBG directors withdrawing from the WT board.

Why would he pull further donations if the ownership changed?
I have no idea? What makes you think he would?
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Apologies. I read your previous responses in a way you probably didn't intend. This one clears it up.

I think the recommendations have been implemented to a degree. It's just the Romero/Burgess return to power that is concerning.

A functioning club allows its members to vote the administration in and out. We simply don't have that.
 
Nothing in the review called for members voting directors in or out.

Nothing in the review recommendations called for private ownership.

Nothing in the review recommendations stipulated that Romero & Burgess could not be reappointed to represent HBG or the Magpies. If indeed they are reappointed.

Nothing to say alternative private ownership would deliver superior on field results.

Nothing to say that the so called Wests/Balmain factions are so problematic that they are indeed the cause of the clubs poor recent on field performance.
 
There is zero hope of a stand-alone re entry by the Magpies and Balmain.

Zero.

Take a look at the demographics.

In the old Wests area Homebush to Summer Hill, the whole area is practically a gentrified Asian area now......most arriving post JV.

What about Balmain’s traditional areas.

Look at Leichhardt. Walk down Norton St. It's basically derelict.

What about Ryde, West Ryde etc. Basically new migrants there now.

You will battle to find someone to talk RL in any of the above including WA.

And Campbelltown has massively changed since 20000.

Restarting Wests or Balmain in any of the above would be like setting up a new club in non Rugby League area.....perhaps with a small exception in the south west.

Forget it. Wests and Balmain live on in the JV and that's the way I want it to stay.

Unless somebody has a time machine taking us back to the 70s, 80s or 90s.
 
Magpie_Magic said:
Nothing in the review called for members voting directors in or out.

Nothing in the review recommendations called for private ownership.

Nothing in the review recommendations stipulated that Romero & Burgess could not be reappointed to represent HBG or the Magpies. If indeed they are reappointed.

Nothing to say alternative private ownership would deliver superior on field results.

Nothing to say that the so called Wests/Balmain factions are so problematic that they are indeed the cause of the clubs poor recent on field performance.
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Have you seen the report from the review?
 
cochise said:
Have you seen the report from the review?
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Not in its entirety.

Just going off what has been publicly discussed.

In any case the club wasn't under any obligation to commission a review, its recommendations are just that recommendations, and non binding.

I might add the general jist of the recommendations are a separation of powers from HBG to the WT board, so they are not totally directly involved.

Furthermore. HBG are it appears acting on these.

And I'd add while I agree with the general theme of the recommendations there is nothing to say they will lead to improved on field performances on their own.
 
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twentyforty said:
On field struggles?
There are many fans who wish that was the problem we‘re confronting, but truth is it’s just a symptom of a far greater issue which needs addressing, and we all know that if we sweep it under the carpet it doesn’t improve by itself.
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None of that has anything to do with suggesting the club should fold.

Anyone suggesting that should happen is an idiot.
 
twentyforty said:
And anyone suggesting the status quo be maintained has far superior intellect.
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What status quo?

What are you on about?

This entire thread was a baiting post by a frustrated fan (or troll) suggesting the club should fold.

That idea is bullshit and should be heavily mocked.

That is literally the end of it.
 
THE STORM MUST HAND IN THEIR NRL 1ST GRADE LICENCE!

After all, most fans are bored with the club being near or at the top every year. How about giving other teams a chance? The comp would be way more fun if Storm folded and passed their star players evenly around the draw.

Besides, who'd miss them? Wrestling fans, I guess. Most Melbournites would just go back to supporting a Qld team or AFL.

But no, we have to put up with the most boooring club ever because the NRL wants to pretend that league is a NATIONAL sport. Yeah, sure. SA v WA anyone? ;)
 
Siberian Kitten said:
THE STORM MUST HAND IN THEIR NRL 1ST GRADE LICENCE!

After all, most fans are bored with the club being near or at the top every year. How about giving other teams a chance? The comp would be way more fun if Storm folded and passed their star players evenly around the draw.

Besides, who'd miss them? Wrestling fans, I guess. Most Melbournites would just go back to supporting a Qld team or AFL.

But no, we have to put up with the most boooring club ever because the NRL wants to pretend that league is a NATIONAL sport. Yeah, sure. SA v WA anyone? ;)
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It was imperative for Storm to win games so they could attract a following. If the NRL had sent WT to Melbourne there is no way the Victorians would have put up with what we’ve had to endure over the last 12 years.
 
BUGSY MALONE said:
No Finals since 2011 and 3 x Wooden Spoons in 2022, 2023 & 2024, the Wests Tigers club need to hand in their NRL1st Grade Licence! Only 14 wins in three years with the final straw having over 60 points scored against them by the 2nd last team in the final 2024 battle for the spoon game.
Wests Tigers supporters please consider your thoughts before making any of the following responses:
1. I will be a supporter for life regardless of performances
2. We will be better next year in 2025
3. The club deserve to be in the NRL because the joint-venture teams Balmain & Wests are original clubs from 1908.
4. Plenty of other clubs have won Wooden Spoons.
4. The club has great Junior talent coming through the grades
5. Have you forgotten 2005?
Whilst I admire the club bringing in Richo to try and turn things around, the Wests Tigers need to just put a team in the NSW Cup (to appease current fans) and give their Licence back to the NRL where they can allocate a new licence to e.g.a QLD Cup side or another identified side from NZ, WA or Papua New Guinea etc. There are far too many sides from Sydney and surely Tigers supporters are so tired of seeing their club ridiculed in the media year after year as a result of officials making decisions bordering on lunacy.
Watching the WESTS TIGERS play in the NSW Cup would be more enjoyable where they may perform better and make finals (though not a given). If I were Wests Ashfield I would make a board decision for 2025 and refuse any further funding of the team in the NRL1st Grade.
Maybe private ownership is the only way out?
I am fully aware this post is full of negativity and supporters on this site are loaded with positive thinkers, but surely I am not the only fan who has finally put up the sign "ENOUGH IS ENOUGH "!
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n Canturbury aren;t called the Pickers any more,u should justgive up n spare us the waffle,- go run with the other dogs
 
I wouldn’t get too worried people. The club isn’t going to fold. Like Leo and others, people are just brain storming options for improvement. They remember the good old days after a win when Harry would come into the shed with a bag full of dollars and pass it around, with the chant from the players..”Harrryy Harryy Harryy Harryy..”
 
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